Division of Developmental Pediatrics

About Developmental Pediatrics

The division of developmental pediatrics cares for patients with a wide variety of developmental disorders including autism, cerebral palsy, cognitive disability, Down Syndrome, complex learning and behavioural disorders, language delay and many more.

Besides the general developmental clinics, we run a variety of specialized clinics that are typically multidisciplinary in nature such as the neuromuscular clinic, adolescent clinic for children with physical disabilities, spasticity clinic, cleft lip and palate clinic and spina bifida clinic.

The majority of the clinics are located at the Chedoke site, but also at the McMaster site of McMaster Children's Hospital.

The developmental pediatricians work closely with the Developmental Pediatric Rehabilitation and the Autism Spectrum Disorder Services at Chedoke. Physician input to the latter service is shared with colleagues from child psychiatry, including Dr. Boyd and Dr. Woodbury Smith.

The team is involved in several areas of research including transition to adulthood, cerebral palsy, autism, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

All of the physicians in the group are dedicated teachers. They participate at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels of medical education. Dr. Carter is a member of the Pediatric Clerkship program and Dr. Harman is the director of the fellowship program in developmental pediatrics.